Ghost among the Ruins

“When a civilization is reaching its end, it is difficult to achieve anything by resisting it and by directly opposing the forces in motion. The current is too strong; one would be over-whelmed. The essential thing is not to let oneself be impressed by the omnipotence and apparent triumph of the forces of the epoch.
-Julius Evola

Some of the recent commentary from Cybro at Rex Patriach and others at Rational Male have led me to believe that the Ghosting form of MGTOW is really the only way as a man to maintain full dignity and your own sense of destiny in this modern phase.

First of all, a commentator provided an excellent visual representation of the current disparity in play--driven by feminists who have created a skewed situation.  

This has had numerous effects which have been well detailed in the manosphere. The value of high value women due to their unleashed hypergamy means no man is capable of pleasing them. Even for Alphas, their best outcome is to be one of many on some woman's cock carousel--but ultimately, they can never truly be in command of the situation as the female always thinks of him at a lower value.

This also forces most men to look at lower value women as their market equals if they expect any long-term relationship. Note the increase in decent Men having to settle for fat women. But rather than those women being overjoyed at their situation and working extra-hard to be good partners, they instead retain their hypergamous ways--because of the inflated market value--and the situation is even worse.

This is also leading to an increase in White Knighting, AMOGing. poaching and other undignified behavior by men who are so desperate due to the conditioning, that their dignity or any sense of ethic standard is long gone..

Which brings me to Cybro's comments on Ghosting and and current trad-MGTOWS. There are two definitions for traditionalism and the common one being used is the small 't' version which is really another form of conservatism. i.e. wanting to roll back the clock a few years or decades.

But as anyone who's investigated knows... most men have been on the wrong side of the ledger for a long time now.

On Dalrock's blog, it was pointed out that Women were given the right to vote in England for--get this--in exchange for their support for conscription prior to World War One. That's right, they sent tens of thousands of THEIR OWN MEN to die in probably the most psychologically damaging war in history. Thinning out the male population then allowed women to move into jobs and other employment traditionally set aside for men, while men that didn't die, came back likely damaged. Point is, so many men went to die for nothing at all and who profited from this?

Note: Unlike the ancient rites of War--which could at least provide some heroic and spiritual fulfillment--and were often necessary in more turbulent times... Modern, industrialized warfare is just a slaughterhouse, where men are thrown into a grinder, for causes they don't really understand (usually capitalist industry and subversive political aims). Henry Kissinger called soldiers stupid animals. Well no, they were not stupid--they were ruthlessly sold out and exploited by people they thought they could trust.

Anyway, there is another view of Traditionalism (capital 't') which is radical version, and one of it's major philosophers was Julius Evola. Evola believed in cyclical ages of Man/Civilization e.g. Golden Age, Hero Age, Iron Age etc and that we were currently in the final age, he called Kali Yuga, as it was called in Sanskrit tradition. Essentially it meant that real "Traditionalism" was no longer possible because it was a period in which all true forms of real being were dissolving... and that to compromise was a doomed task. .

Interesting enough, his proscription for Men aware of this false age was not too different to MGTOW or going Ghost--as is quoted at the top of this post. He also predicted that more and more men would recede from the progressing system.

“This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world's disinherited, of those who do not fit in with their surroundings or with their own body or with their own race or tradition and who hope, by means of renunciation, to assure for themselves a future world where, to use a Nietzschean expression, the inversion of all values will occur.”
― Julius Evola

In this strange irony, it is those who are Ghosts amongst the Ruins are actually the ones in tune with the grander cycles at play and are in fact acting in accordance with "Traditional" principles--while trad-MGTOWS and those who think they can re-adjust the current balance by playing politics (their game) are completely inauthentic.

Let us leave modern men to their “truths” and let us only be concerned about one thing: to keep standing [ed: ghosting] amid a world of ruins.”
― Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World

One must really embrace the philosophical state of mind first--it's not easy to go ghost, especially with the current system where everything is so inter-connected and financial freedom even more difficult to achieve. Living like Caine from Kung-Fu or Clint Eastwood in The Good, Bad and the Ugly is no simple matter. It raises red flags from the people still in the Matrix and like the movie, seemingly good people will suddenly become like Agents* and see you as a threat to their reality.

*I've experienced this many times and there's no doubt in my mind, that people can come under the control of some outside "conscience" in certain situations though I've no idea how.

Overall though, if you transform the mind first, it becomes easier to drift in and out of the system--to play along with all the blue pillers as need be--and then completely disengage whenever you need to.